FIREX-AQ DC-8 In-Situ Aerosol Data

Description

FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data are in-situ aerosol measurements collected onboard the DC-8 aircraft during FIREX-AQ. This product features data collected by the AMS, CPC, PSAP, CCN, CDP, Nephelometers, and a variety of other in-situ instrumentation. Data collection for this product is complete. Completed during summer 2019, FIREX-AQ utilized a combination of instrumented airplanes, satellites, and ground-based instrumentation. Detailed fire plume sampling was carried out by the NASA DC-8 aircraft, which had a comprehensive instrument payload capable of measuring over 200 trace gas species, as well as aerosol microphysical, optical, and chemical properties. The DC-8 aircraft completed 23 science flights, including 15 flights from Boise, Idaho and 8 flights from Salina, Kansas. NASA’s ER-2 completed 11 flights, partially in support of the FIREX-AQ effort. The ER-2 payload was made up of 8 satellite analog instruments and provided critical fire information, including fire temperature, fire plume heights, and vegetation/soil albedo information. NOAA provided the NOAA-CHEM Twin Otter and the NOAA-MET Twin Otter aircraft to measure chemical processing in the lofted plumes of Western wildfires. The NOAA-CHEM Twin Otter focused on nighttime plume chemistry, from which data is archived at the NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC). The NOAA-MET Twin Otter collected measurements of air movements at fire boundaries with the goal of understanding the local weather impacts of fires and the movement patterns of fires. NOAA-MET Twin Otter data will be archived at the ASDC in the future. Additionally, a ground-based station in McCall, Idaho and several mobile laboratories provided in-situ measurements of aerosol microphysical and optical properties, aerosol chemical compositions, and trace gas species. The Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) campaign was a NOAA/NASA interagency intensive study of North American fires to gain an understanding on the integrated impact of the fire emissions on the tropospheric chemistry and composition and to assess the satellite’s capability for detecting fires and estimating fire emissions. The overarching goal of FIREX-AQ was to provide measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions for wildfires and prescribed fires in great detail, relate them to fuel and fire conditions at the point of emission, characterize the conditions relating to plume rise, and follow plumes downwind to understand chemical transformation and air quality impacts.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 DOI data set landing page for FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC/FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1
21 NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) Overview of FIREX-AQ https://esrl.noaa.gov/csl/projects/firex-aq/
33 FIREX-AQ Mission Overview/White Paper https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/firex-aq/docs/whitepaper.pdf
21 Data Management Plan for FIREX-AQ https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/firex-aq/docs/DMT_FIREXAQ_v02.pptx
21 FIREX-AQ Project Home Page https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/firex-aq/
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article “Sampling the Castle Fire” (August 13, 2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145494/sampling-the-castle-fire/
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article “Flying through a Fire Cloud” (August 7, 2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145446/flying-through-a-fire-cloud/
21 NASA Earth Expeditions Article “Fire Weather, Pyro Weather” (July 29, 2019) https://blogs.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/2019/07/29/fire-weather-pyro-weather/
21 AERONET Data for FIREX-AQ https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/DRAGON-FIREX-AQ_2019.html
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/FIREX-AQ/Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC%2FFIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1
21 ESPO home page for FIREX-AQ https://espo.nasa.gov/firex-aq/
21 NASA Earth Expeditions Article “Plumes Go The Distance” (July 30, 2019) https://blogs.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/2019/07/30/plumes-go-the-distance/
21 ER-2 instrument suite for the Summer 2019 FIREX-AQ field campaign https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/firex-aq/docs/FIREX-AQ_ER-2_Instrument_data_archive_pointer.docx
21 FIREX-AQ Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) Power User Interface (UI) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/FIREXAQ/2019
21 Earthdata Search for Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1917873812-LARC_ASDC

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  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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